The study of Terminal Care of Elderly People in East Asia( internationalizationTerminal Care )

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24653149
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Social welfare and social work studies
• Research Institution: Chubu Gakuin University
• Principal Investigator: GOTO Masumi 中部学院大学, 公私立大学の部局等, 教授 (70301710)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): MIKAMI Akichika 中部学院大学, 看護リハビリテーション学部, 教授 (40027503) ; HOU Bin 広島国際大学, 医療福祉学部, 准教授 (00352013) ; MORITA Naoko 中部学院大学, 人間福祉学部, 准教授 (80434520) ; TSUKAMOTO Toshiyuki 福井県立大学, 看護福祉学部, 准教授 (40315841) ; SAKAI Miwa 関西福祉科学大学, 社会福祉学部, 助教 (70454436) ; AKIKO Kobayashi 福井県立大学, 看護福祉学部, 教授 (80291970)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: エンドオブライフケア / 終末期ケア / 中国 / 韓国 / 台湾 / 死生観 / 看取り観

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In East Asia, population of elderly people is increasing rapidly. Elderly people in this area spend their end of life at elderly welfare facilities or elderly care facilities as well as hospitals. In those cases, the role of care staffs during the period near the end of life is becoming important. We surveyed the attitudes of care stuffs including nurses, care workers, social workers and medical doctors about terminal care and death in this area. A total of 1,147 staffs (221 in Korea, 318 in China, 289 in Taiwan and 319 in Japan) who are working at elderly care facilities participated. In these countries, people tended to accept intensive care or tube feeding at the end of life. These tendencies may be related to the cultural background of the East Asia. The results must be useful to improve the education of care staffs. The results will also help to design the future plan of the team care of the elderly people during the terminal period of their lives.

Free Research Field

社会福祉、看護